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Almodóvar's third feature is a kitsch, colourful and enjoyably bitchy delight that showcases his masterful direction of and adoration for his female stars; Carmen Maura, Marisa Paredes, and Cecilia Roth all feature.
Blighted by drugs and amour fou, nightclub singer Yolanda (Cristina Sanchez Pascual) has herself committed to a charity convent. The nuns there include a writer of sensationalist pulp fiction, a drug addict and a masochist. But their private lives and perverse foibles are plunged into doubt when a new mother superior arrives to take charge.
An unbridled visual delight, the parodic Dark Habits offers a powerful denigration of the Catholic Church, a recurring motif in the director's later work.
Almodóvar's third feature is a kitsch, colourful and enjoyably bitchy delight that showcases his masterful direction of and adoration for his female stars; Carmen Maura, Marisa Paredes, and Cecilia Roth all feature.
Blighted by drugs and amour fou, nightclub singer Yolanda (Cristina Sanchez Pascual) has herself committed to a charity convent. The nuns there include a writer of sensationalist pulp fiction, a drug addict and a masochist. But their private lives and perverse foibles are plunged into doubt when a new mother superior arrives to take charge.
An unbridled visual delight, the parodic Dark Habits offers a powerful denigration of the Catholic Church, a recurring motif in the director's later work.
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Additional Info
SKU | 5060034573067 |
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Catalogue Number | OPTD0266 |
Year | 1983 |
Director | Pedro Almodóvar |
Format | DVD |
Publisher(s) | Optimum Home Entertainment |
Countries | Spain |
Aspect ratio | 16:9 |
Colour | Colour |
Subtitles | English |
Language(s) | Spanish |
Running time | 96 mins |
DVD region | 2 |
Certificate | 15 |